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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Charlie Kirk on Donald Trump's Inaugural Speech: The Greatest in American History and Divine Mission
Charlie Kirk delivers a stirring analysis of Donald Trump's 47th presidential inauguration, calling it the greatest inaugural speech in American history. Kirk argues that Trump's bold, uncompromising address represented a public rebuke to the political establishment, delivered directly to the faces of Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Pence. From declaring mass deportations to designating cartels as terrorist organizations, Trump's speech marked the end of decades of American decline and the beginning of a new era—one that Kirk believes is guided by divine providence and the enduring wisdom of America's founding fathers.
President Donald Trump decided to take bold action himself. While many Republicans in Washington were waffling back and forth, uncertain about supporting decisive action, Trump remained steadfast. President Donald Trump is on a mission, and Charlie Kirk believes he's on a mission from the Divine.
When President Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 47th president, it's important to realize we may never see a story this heroic, this unlikely. Of all the sequencing that needs to take place, Kirk truly believes this is the sovereign hand of God playing out before our eyes. Trump laid out a bold vision to bring America back to greatness.
"From this day forward our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world," Trump declared. "We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump Administration I will very simply put America first. We will dream boldly and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours and our golden age has just begun."
The Greatest Inaugural Speech in American History
This was an intrepid speech—daring, valiant, fearless, unafraid, undaunted. What was so striking about it was that President Trump very well could have played it easy, could have played it safe. But to their faces, he said that all of them are the reason why he has to fix this country, and he will. It is actively being fixed right now.
Kirk believes this was the greatest inaugural speech in American history, certainly of his lifetime. Usually these inaugural speeches are filled with platitudes and abstractions. But Trump delivered his message right in front of Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Mike Pence, and Barack Obama. He called them out and said times are changing.
In some ways, Kirk believes deep down they know that Trump is so unshackled because he survived an assassination attempt and because they indicted him. Looking at them closely in the Rotunda, Kirk was staring at Biden, at Kamala, at Bush, at all of them. They felt like losers because they are. They felt humiliated, and they should be.
A Public Reckoning for the Political Establishment
This inaugural was also a public humiliation ritual for the worst people in American politics. Trump took the architects of America's decades of decline and told them to their faces that their project is finished forever.
"All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came," Trump announced. "And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. Under the orders I signed today we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
He just said mass deportations are coming. He said millions and millions of criminal aliens will be returned to their country of origin. No gray area. No room for wiggle. Promises made, promises kept.
America First, Every Single Day
Every day, Trump will put America first. "During every single day of the Trump Administration I will very simply put America First," he declared. "Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the justice department and our government will end."
This should not be taken for granted. Kirk emphasizes the need to slow down and recognize that this is not normal. Your head is probably spinning, and that's by design—it is total shaking off of the old regime.
A Moment for the History Books
Kirk points to the iconic image of President Donald Trump, Melania, Usha, and JD Vance waving goodbye as they sent the old regime back to Delaware. That image, he believes, should be in the Smithsonian when they establish the Trump Presidential Museum. The museum should have a whole McDonald's exhibit, the garbage truck, a whole display dedicated to Butler, Pennsylvania, and that waving image. It's goodbye to an old regime.
Living Through Something Bigger Than Ourselves
We need to slow down. Things are moving fast, but as we try to analyze and break down the news, we have to recognize and realize we're living through something so much bigger than ourselves. It's a miracle that we survived.
As we try to slow this down and process what we're living through, we are the inheritors of a system, a structure. When James Madison was asked what was the brilliance of the U.S. Constitution, he said it was the structure. He said it was the deference to the American people, the prioritization of the sovereign.
The founding fathers built in so many fail-safes. They gave us this system, and it has been abused and challenged. They've tried to create a super-governmental government on top of the three branches—the administrative state. But what happened proves that the people actually can take back their homeland.
The Founding Fathers' Victory
The framers gave us this system, this structure, for a reason. The founding fathers—Madison, Hamilton, and Jay especially—this is their victory. They envisioned what would happen if this country goes off course. They gave us the Electoral College, they ensured that people would still elect their leaders, and it shows that if a small group of people can dedicate themselves to righteous and noble causes, things can improve.
Benjamin Franklin was asked at the Constitutional Convention in 1789 in Philadelphia what type of government they had established. Benjamin Franklin responded in an off-the-cuff remark: "We have a republic, if we can keep it."
Kirk is here to tell you that we still have a republic. We are keeping it. As President Donald Trump raises his fist in that image from the fields of Butler with a grazed ear from an assassin's bullet to the raised fist as the 47th president, we still have a republic.
